Laura Krifka – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS

Through intimate and very carefully built figurative paintings, San Luis Obispo, California-based mostly artist Laura Krifka (previously highlighted right here) dissects the mechanisms of ability, identification, and observation uncovered in visible society. With non-descript references to the record of painting, Krifka incorporates the up to date frameworks of movie and images into her comprehension of portraiture and psychology. By collapsing quite a few views of the exact same pose, subject, place, and time into every painting she results in scenes that show up deceptively easy, but are rife with distortions, puzzles, and bodily impossibilities that make visible factuality tenuous and challenge a viewer’s perceptual talents.

Krifka directs each complex narrative as paintings unravel and reform gradually over months and even many years. Protagonists inhabit domestic spaces, occasionally gazing assertively out of their canvases, other moments disappearing into the wallpaper, but often vulnerable. Her figures occupy many states of undress, preparation, or perform, expressing an simplicity with intimacy and an acknowledgement that the act of seeking is a central element of drive. The satisfaction of observation is echoed in Krifka’s individual terms: “…our pleasures and perversions have been molded by the fictions that permeate our ubiquitous visible culture. That our most solution wishes are partially fashioned by our codified, collective encounters is a source of endless fascination for me.”

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